Leo Tolstoy,
The Novels and Other Works of Lyof N. Tolstoï
(1902)
“ The quality of art, considered according to its subject-matter—The better the feeling the better the art—The cultured crowd—The religious perception of our age—The new ideals put fresh demands to art—Art unites—Religious art—Universal art—Both cooperate to one result—The new appraisement of art—Bad art—Examples of art—How to test a work claiming to be art ”
Leo Tolstoy,
The Novels and Other Works of Lyof N. Tolstoï
(1902)
“ Loss of comprehensibility—Decadent art—Recent French art—Have we a right to say it is bad and that what we like is good art?—The highest art has always been comprehensible to normal people—What fails to infect normal people is not art ”
Leo Tolstoy,
The Novels and Other Works of Lyof N. Tolstoï
(1902)
“ Truths fatal to preconceived views are not readily recognized—Proportion of works of art to counterfeits—Perversion of taste and incapacity to recognize art—Examples................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ ”
